Gannan Region Ethnic Relations

In this article, the author took Gannan region (name of an area in the south of Gansu province), the transition terrain between loess plateau and Qing-Tibet plateau in northwest China as the case place, with the theories and the approaches of Ethnology, Anthropology to the study of inter-relations among different nationalities, especially among Chinese Muslims Huizu, Tibetan and Chinese Hanzu; he holistically probed into the relations by the core mechanism economic mutual complementation, which Huizu exerted the functions of combination and cooperation, of the inter-nationalities relation in Gannan area as well as the factors that affected/ influenced the relations. Meanwhile, the author analyzed the policies that the local government constituted for the important reaction to the relations among different ethnic minorities, in order to provide some suggestible and evident achievements by personal investigation for the realization of the benefits, the exertion of the advantages, the harmonious co-existence, the dialogues between different civilizations, and the synchronous advances of different nationalities.In terms of research methods, the author paid attention to the integration of the field work investigation and historical documentations, which could be a breakthrough of only localized extension of the research by the literature of history, from the perspective of simultaneous notification of macro and micro structures.The whole article is subdivided into seven chapters. The Introduction provides us the meaning of doing the research, the theories, the methods and the structures of the whole article and the historical achievements of the topic. In the first two chapters, in accordance with the historical materials, with the combination of the data collected during the field work, the author discussed with us the Gannan inter-nationalities relations, including the following aspects: the human cultures, the geography, the economy, the social space and characters, thereafter concluded the relations from the evidences of inhabitation structures and the people's encounters. The main chapter, in fact the core content of the article is in Chapter three, discussed the basic association...